SaaS startup ecosystem
Software-as-a-service is a cornerstone of European B2B tech. From process mining in Munich to HR platforms in Dublin, European SaaS companies compete globally with strong unit economics and increasingly efficient go-to-market strategies. The Nordics and DACH region are particularly strong. We track 437 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
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Passbolt
Passbolt is a Luxembourg-based open-source password and secret-management platform built for security-conscious IT teams, from five-person companies up to organizations of 5,000. It is SOC 2 Type II audited, GDPR compliant, a member of the FIDO Alliance, and markets itself as 'Made in Europe'; its 50,000+ customers include government bodies, defence agencies and IT companies such as the French Interior Ministry and Bosch.
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PastPay
B2B Buy Now Pay Later fintech that lets merchants offer business buyers deferred payment terms of 15-90 days while the merchant is paid instantly, handling credit risk and collections.
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PayAnalytics
PayAnalytics is a Reykjavik-founded pay equity software company, co-founded in 2016 by Dr. Margret Vilborg Bjarnadottir, that helps HR teams identify and close pay gaps through pay equity analysis, EU Pay Transparency Directive compliance workflows, value-based job comparison, workforce diversity analytics, and customized remediation recommendations. The company was acquired by compensation management company beqom in December 2023 and continues to operate under the PayAnalytics brand as part of the beqom group.
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PayFit
PayFit is a Paris-based fintech founded in 2016 that provides cloud payroll and HR software for small and medium-sized businesses, automating pay runs, leave, expenses and employee management across several European countries. It reached unicorn status in 2022 and serves tens of thousands of SMEs.
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Paytently
Paytently is a payment orchestration platform built by former executives from Checkout.com, Trustly, and TrueLayer. Founded in 2022 and launched commercially in 2023, its single API enables businesses to route transactions across 60+ acquiring partners and 200+ alternative payment methods, with AI-powered fraud detection and intelligent routing to optimise success rates. Regulated as a Payment Institution by the Malta Financial Services Authority, the company serves iGaming, e-commerce, and other high-volume verticals from its headquarters in Sliema.
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Pelico
Pelico is a manufacturing and supply-chain orchestration platform that helps industrial operations teams identify and respond to disruptions in real time. It connects data, teams and tools across complex manufacturing operations to reduce part shortages and backlogs, cut inventory costs and improve on-time delivery. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Paris, the company counts large manufacturers among its users and raised a $40 million strategic financing round led by General Catalyst in 2025 to advance generative AI in its platform and expand in North America.
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Penneo
Penneo is a Copenhagen-based digital trust company, legally Penneo A/S, offering Penneo Sign, Penneo Collect, and Penneo Verify to digitally sign, collect data for, and verify the identity behind business documents with cryptographic, court-admissible evidence. It is a Qualified Trust Service Provider (QTSP) under the EU eIDAS regulation, generating certificates, signatures, and timestamps on hardware security modules in Danish, EU-based data centres, and it holds ISO 27001 certification. Penneo reports serving more than 3,500 companies across Europe, primarily in audit and accounting, finance and banking, legal services, and real estate.
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Pennylane
Accounting and financial management platform growing its engineering footprint in Spain. Pennylane is a startup based in Paris, France at the growth stage. The company operates in the Fintech, Accounting, SaaS space. Learn more at their website.
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PFR Ventures
PFR Ventures is the venture capital arm of the Polish Development Fund (Polski Fundusz Rozwoju), wholly owned by the Polish state, established in 2014 and based in Warsaw. The firm operates as the largest fund-of-funds manager in the Central and Eastern Europe region, managing over PLN 3 billion in assets across 80+ private VC funds that have collectively supported more than 900 startup investments. PFR Ventures co-invests alongside private LPs to leverage EU structural funds and catalyse private capital into the Polish venture ecosystem, backing early-stage through growth-stage funds in sectors including deep tech, SaaS, fintech, and life sciences. Its Innovate Poland programme launched in November 2025 with at least PLN 4 billion earmarked for the next investment cycle.
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Philippe Corrot
Co-founder and CEO of Mirakl, the marketplace and e-commerce software platform he co-founded in 2012. He scaled it into a global SaaS leader valued at over $3.5bn, backed by 83North, Permira and others.
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Philippe de la Chevasnerie
Co-founder and CEO of papernest, the platform that automates household subscriptions and contracts. A former McKinsey consultant, he co-founded the company in 2015 and expanded it across Europe.
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Pipedrive
Pipedrive is a sales-focused CRM platform originally founded in 2010 in Tallinn, Estonia by Timo Rein, Urmas Purde, and a team of experienced salespeople and developers. The platform provides an intuitive pipeline-management interface that helps small and mid-sized businesses track deals, automate follow-ups, and forecast revenue. Pipedrive serves over 100,000 paying companies in 175 countries and employs more than 850 people. In 2020, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake at a reported $1.5 billion valuation. Pipedrive is one of Estonia's most prominent tech exports and a pillar of the Baltic startup ecosystem.
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Pitch
Pitch is a Berlin-based collaborative presentation platform founded in 2018 by Christian Reber, the creator of Wunderlist. The product enables teams to build, design, and present slide decks together in real time with built-in templates, brand controls, and analytics. Backed by investors including Index Ventures, Lakestar, and Thrive Capital, Pitch competes with Google Slides and Canva in the modern workplace productivity space and has attracted hundreds of thousands of teams worldwide.
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Plum
Plum is a money management fintech that offers a mobile app with smart tools for automated saving, budgeting and investing, helping users manage personal finances with minimal manual effort. Founded in 2016 by Victor Trokoudes and Alex Michael, the company is headquartered in London with additional offices in Athens and Nicosia, and serves more than 2 million users across Europe. In July 2024 it raised a £16 million Series B round to support growth and a push toward profitability, with strategic investor Eurobank having taken a minority stake.
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PortfoLion Capital Partners
PortfoLion is the venture capital and growth equity arm of OTP Bank, Hungary's largest bank, managing approximately €440 million in AUM across three distinct funds targeting seed, growth, and turnaround stages. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Budapest, it is the most prominent institutional VC in the CEE region by assets under management, with 64 portfolio companies across Hungary and wider Central and Eastern Europe. Its seed fund deploys €500k–€3 million per ticket and the growth fund €5–30 million, with notable investments including SEON (which went on to raise $150 million from Creandum and IVP) and Tresorit (acquired by Swiss Post). The firm has a team of 33 professionals including five partners.
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Practica Capital
Practica Capital is the most established venture capital firm in the Baltics, founded in Vilnius in 2011 and managing four funds totalling over €130 million in assets under management. The firm invests at pre-seed, seed, and selected Series A stages in marketplace, SaaS, and deep/industrial tech startups originating from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and now has partners on the ground in all three Baltic capitals. Its portfolio of 70+ companies includes CGTrader, TransferGo, PVcase, Interactio, Eneba, and Ovoko, with one IPO and six acquisitions to date. The €80 million third fund, closed in February 2024, is the largest seed fund ever raised in the Baltic region.
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Prezi
Prezi is a Budapest-founded visual communication and presentation platform that introduced a non-linear, zoomable canvas as an alternative to traditional slide-based presentations. The company has expanded beyond its original presentation product into Prezi Video, which overlays visual content alongside a speaker's live video feed for more engaging virtual presentations and meetings. With over 100 million users globally, Prezi is one of Hungary's most recognized consumer technology brands and an early example of a Central European startup building a globally adopted SaaS product. The company has raised over $70 million and continues to innovate in the visual storytelling and remote communication space.
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Pricefx
Pricefx is a cloud-native pricing software company founded in 2011 by Marcin Cichon, Christian Tratz and Martin Wricke. Headquartered in Pfaffenhofen an der Glonn, Germany, with additional operations including Prague and Ostrava, its SaaS platform provides price optimisation and management and configure-price-quote capabilities for enterprises, and it has added AI features such as PricingAI and AI Agents. The company raised a $65 million Series C round in 2020 led by funds advised by Apax Digital, and reported continued growth and AI adoption through 2025.
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Printify
Printify is a print-on-demand platform founded in Riga in 2015 that connects e-commerce merchants with a global network of third-party print providers. Merchants can design and sell custom products — apparel, accessories, home goods — without holding inventory. In 2021 the company raised $45 million, including from H&M Group. In late 2024 Printify merged with fellow Latvian unicorn Printful to form one of the world's largest print-on-demand groups.
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Probely
Developer-first Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) and API vulnerability scanner. Founded 2016 in Portugal; raised EUR 7.7M Series A in 2022; acquired by Snyk in November 2024.
